{"id":7381,"date":"2021-09-28T16:40:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T20:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/?p=7381"},"modified":"2022-11-03T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T13:44:34","slug":"chemistry-professor-space-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/chemistry-professor-space-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry professor awarded $25,000 in Florida Space Grant Consortium funding"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; column_margin=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_tablet=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_phone=&#8221;default&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; row_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; row_border_radius_applies=&#8221;bg&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extraa-padding&#8221; column_padding_tablet=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_phone=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; column_element_spacing=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; border_type=&#8221;simple&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;] [image_with_animation image_url=&#8221;7383&#8243; animation=&#8221;Fade In&#8221; hover_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; alignment=&#8221;&#8221; border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; box_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; image_loading=&#8221;default&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; max_width_mobile=&#8221;default&#8221;][vc_column_text]<em>AJ Gross, a junior biochemistry student from Minnesota, has been working in Felton\u2019s lab since his first year at Eckerd. 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The United Kingdom native and University of Leicester graduate has been working on this project since joining Eckerd in 2017, when the College awarded him a five-year $35,000 start-up fund. Additional funding will help him continue this work and expand the implications. More than a finished product, the goal of Felton\u2019s carbon recycling research is to refine processes, train future electrochemists and display the breadth of space-related science.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony \u201cAJ\u201d Gross, a junior <a href=\"\/chemistry\/biochemistry\/\">biochemistry<\/a> student from Princeton, Minnesota, has been working in Felton\u2019s lab since he met the faculty member at the Chemistry Club table during a club fair his first year at Eckerd. 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It would take large-scale artificial photosynthesis to turn that carbon dioxide into a carbohydrate ready for reuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more a proof of concept than close to install,\u201d Felton explains. \u201cIf we were able to achieve it, we could do it much more efficiently than plants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So they\u2019ll begin by working to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and hopefully progress all the way to isolating the carbon.<\/p>\n<p>In the process of working for Felton, AJ says he\u2019s learned everything he knows about instrumentation in chemistry, including how to operate Felton\u2019s favorite, the 300-MHz NMR spectrometer, a machine that allows researchers to view the molecules in compounds similarly to the way an MRI lets doctors see the inner workings of the human body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came here to major in <a href=\"\/marinescience\/\">marine science<\/a> because I wanted to do coral genetic engineering, but then I found that biochemistry might be a better route to my goal,\u201d AJ says. \u201cBut the work I do for Dr. Felton is inorganic chemistry, and I really love working with metallic compounds. 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